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What android keyboard app do you use and why? (lemmy.today)

submitted 3 months ago by Paradachshund@lemmy.today to c/asklemmy@lemmy.world

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I use Gboard.

The main things I like about it are:

Very customizable (I like having number row always visible, and having long press for symbols on each letter).
Has gif support built in.

My biggest pain point is:

It auto corrects words that are spelled correctly to other words. I type "our" and it changes to "out", I recently typed "purpose" and it changed it to "purple". Autocorrect is awesome and necessary, but I hate that it corrects words to other words and not just typos. I wish I could find a keyboard that has the things I like without this annoyance.

Am I looking for a unicorn? Let me know! 😄

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[–] cordlesslamp@lemmy.today 4 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

I fucking hate Gboard spelling correct feature, it's completely useless. I often ended up google the word (ironic isn't it) to get the correct spelling.

A little context, English is not my native language so sometimes I got trouble spelling some words. For example the other day, I couldn't remember how to spell "aesthetic", I did type in "asthetic" along with a few other variation, but all I got from the "suggestions bar" was "authentic" "asthenic" "asthma" "asthenia".

So I gave up and type "asthetic" in Google and it knew immediately and correct it to "aesthetic".

[–] Paradachshund@lemmy.today 3 points 3 months ago

Yeah it's horrible. Then I turn it off and realize that it's somehow even worse without it.

[–] captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I used Swiftkey until I noticed that Microsoft is adding weird shit to it and so I deleted it and now I just use the built-in Samsung keyboard because none of the others will be any better.

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[–] Wildly_Utilize@infosec.pub 3 points 3 months ago

OpenBoard Fork with gesture typing

https://github.com/erkserkserks/openboard/releases

[–] lazycouchpotato@lemmy.world 3 points 3 months ago

I will hypocritically say that I use Gboard. I love Emoji Kitchen.

The day it comes to FUTO keyboard I'm outta this spyware.

[–] lazylion_ca@lemmy.ca 2 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Keyboard Designer.

It allows me to put the numbers on the bottom row and the space bar on the 2nd row and the backspace next to the L where it belongs.

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[–] toomanypancakes@lemmy.world 2 points 3 months ago (2 children)

I use Fleksy, probably not as popular because it doesn't have swype typing but I find the autocorrect works really well, and it's easy to change the word if you don't like what it corrected to by swiping up or down to different options, and you can swipe left to delete words. Built in gif support too, and there's an extension to make the number row always show.

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